COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

highest peak (1975m) in Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, at S end of Washington Escarpment, was photographed from the air by USN, 13 January 1956, on a non-stop flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and back; in association with the names of other crew members grouped in this area, named after Cdr (later Capt.) William M. Hawkes, USN, co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft on this flight; pilot-in-command of one of the two aircraft making the first flight from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Sound, 17 December 1955; co-pilot of the ski-equipped R4D Skytrain aircraft Que Sera Sera on the first air landing at the South Pole, 31 October 1956 ([shown in c. 83 28'S 46 00'W, rising to c. 3660m] NGS map, 1957b; [in 84 28'S 54 00'W] USBGN, 1960, p.4; AGS map, 1962b; [in 83 28'S 54 00'W] USHO chart V30-SP11, 1963; [correctly shown] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.4). Gora Khoks (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountain was surveyed from the ground by USGS and rephotographed from the air by USN, 1963-64.

The highest mountain (1,975 m) along the Washington Escarpment, standing at the E side of Jones Valley in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of the trans-Antarctic nonstop plane flight by personnel of USN Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. William M. Hawkes, USN, co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft making this flight.